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monosaturated fat

05-28-2012, 09:26 AM

Just read in Eat Fat, Lose Fat that monosaturated fat is often stored as body fat. Very interesting. I've eaten both butter and olive oil for years but only in the last year radically increased butter over olive oil with good results.

There's an interesting video put out by Dr. Eenfeldt ins which he interviews Steve Phinney. Among lots of interesting things, Phinney says that the Eskimo preferred caribou fat, when they had it, over seal fat, and suggests that this is because the former is higher in saturates. Supplies allowing, they'd eat the caribou fat and use the seal oil for lamp fuel. Phinney also says his own body can make very efficient use of saturates for fuel, but adds this efficiency occurs because he stays in ketosis. There may be lots of variables I guess.

I agree he's got a nice and rather humorous manner, but I take his "I stay up all night reading this stuff so I can tell you what to do" line with a healthy dose of skepticism. Apart from anything else, he cited Ancel Keys' 7 Countries study with a straight face.

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Anti monounsaturated fat. How anti-CW of you fiercehunter.
There's a tonne of research about monounsaturate and olive oils benefits, especially certain polyphenols, antioxidants and oleic acids. A video from some low-fat vegan is hardly a convincing source.

You're this forums worst offender when it comes to constantly reading some obscure sources about something you want to believe and then spreading it as some kind of gospel, sometimes even blatantly ignoring mountains of contrary evidence planted in front of your face.